Digest

Officials closed the intersection of Lantana Road and Military Trail for more than three hours Sunday morning because of a bomb scare.

The bomb unit of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office responded to a Mobil gasoline station at the intersection after a patron spotted a suspicious object atop one of the pumps around 7:30 a.m., said Diane Carhart, Sheriff's Office spokeswoman.

The object was described as a black package with wires sticking out of it, Carhart said.

It turned out to be a black electrical ballast that was partially removed from its box, she said.

The intersection, which was closed as a precaution, reopened at 10:45 a.m.

SOUTH FLORIDA

Amtrak from S. Florida searched in Washington

An Amtrak train bound from Miami to New York was halted in Washington for more than an hour Saturday as authorities investigated a possible threat.

Train 92, the Silver Star, left Miami at 10:30 a.m. Friday, according to The Associated Press.

Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham said graffiti found at the Amtrak station in Orlando that day prompted security officials to stop the train when it arrived at Washington's Union Station on Saturday afternoon.

Graham said she could not confirm media reports that the graffiti was a message in Arabic that referred to Washington and the Fourth of July.

More than 160 passengers were taken off the train as canine units inspected the cars.

Nothing suspicious was found, and no one was arrested.

Passengers were allowed to reboard the train after about 80 minutes.

I-95 update

The Florida Department of Transportation reports the following on Interstate 95 when work resumes on the highway Tuesday:

Periodic alternating north and southbound entrance and exit ramp closures will be in effect at Atlantic Avenue and Linton Boulevard from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

One lane in each direction between Lantana Road and Gateway Boulevard will be closed between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Periodic alternating closures of north and southbound entrance and exit ramps at Hypoluxo and Lantana roads will be in effect from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Periodic closures of Twelfth Avenue South under I-95 will be in effect from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Seventeenth Avenue under I-95 will be closed from 7 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

One lane in each direction from Southern Boulevard to Okeechobee Boulevard will be closed from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.

The southbound entrance ramp to I-95 from Okeechobee Boulevard will be closed from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.

I-95 in each direction from Okeechobee Boulevard to Belvedere Road, the northbound entrance ramp from Southern Boulevard, and the southbound exit ramp to Belvedere Road will be closed from 11 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Traffic will be detoured at Okeechobee Boulevard or Belvedere Road.

Periodic closures of Mercer Avenue under I-95 will be in effect from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.